the presence of υἱὸς ανθρώπου in 2:6, helps explain the author’s notion of a representative figure who would reclaim for humanity what Adam had originally lost. In sum, the author answers the question ‘Who will rule?’ with ‘humans’. The Fall, however, complicated matters, turning protology into eschatology, and thus necessitating the author’s fresh—though not unwarranted—reading of Psalm 8. He insists that with the Fall humans lost their original splendor (‘made lower than the angels’), becoming